Customizing

Everything can be customized through the Everything.ini, registry and Everything options.

This guide will help you customize Everything.

Window Caption

To customize the Everything search window caption, HTTP server title and/or taskbar notification title:

Change the following lines:

window_title_format=$s?{$s - }$t$i?{ ($i)}
http_title_format=$s?{$s - }$t
taskbar_notification_title_format=$t$i?{ ($i)}

Set a new format:

Variable Description

$s Current search

$t Everything (localized)

$i Instance name
Use the following syntax to optionally display text:

Syntax Description

$x?{text} Display text if $x is not empty.
Save changes and close the Everything.ini.
Restart Everything.

Syntax	Description
`$x?{text}`	Display text if $x is not empty.

Example formats:

Format	Search	Title
$s?{$s - }My Search	apples	apples - My Search
$s?{$s - }My Search		My Search

Note: Changing the window_title_format will also affect the title on the taskbar button.

To change the Everything icon:

Copy your custom icon file to:
```
%APPDATA%\Everything\Everything.ico
```
If Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything is disabled, copy your custom icon file to Everything.ico in the same location as your Everything.exe.
Exit Everything (Right click the Everything system tray icon and click Exit)
Restart Everything.

Download the colorful Everything Icon Pack:

To change the Everything Taskbar group icon:

Right click the Everything taskbar button.
Hold down the Shift key and right click Search Everything.
Click Properties.
Click Change Icon.
Click Browse..., select a new icon and click Open.
Click OK.
Click OK.
Rebuild the icon cache:
From the Start menu, type in the following search and press enter:
```
cmd
```
In the command prompt, navigate to local app data folder by typing in the following and pressing enter:
```
cd %localappdata%
```
Remove the hidden attribute from the icon cache database by typing the following and pressing enter:
```
attrib iconcache.db -h
```
Delete the icon cache database by typing the following and pressing enter:
```
del iconcache.db
```
Terminate Windows Explorer by typing the following and pressing enter:
```
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
```
Restart Windows Explorer by typing the following and pressing enter:
```
explorer
```

To open paths in an external file manager:

Change the command to:

$exec("C:\ExternalFileManager\ExternalFileManager.exe" "%1")

Where C:\ExternalFileManager\ExternalFileManager.exe is the location of the external file manager.
Use $$, $%, $( and $) to escape $, %, ( and ).
Check your external file manager help for any required command line parameters.
Click OK.

To use a custom date format in Everything:

Change the following line:

date_format=

Date format can be zero or more of the following codes:

code	Description
d	Day of month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit days.
dd	Day of month as digits with leading zero for single-digit days.
ddd	Day of week as a three-letter abbreviation. The function uses the LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME value associated with the specified locale.
dddd	Day of week as its full name. The function uses the LOCALE_SDAYNAME value associated with the specified locale.
M	Month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit months.
MM	Month as digits with leading zero for single-digit months.
MMM	Month as a three-letter abbreviation. The function uses the LOCALE_SABBREVMONTHNAME value associated with the specified locale.
MMMM	Month as its full name. The function uses the LOCALE_SMONTHNAME value associated with the specified locale.
y	Year as last two digits, but with no leading zero for years less than 10.
yy	Year as last two digits, but with leading zero for years less than 10.
yyyy	Year represented by full four digits.
gg	Period/era string. The function uses the CAL_SERASTRING value associated with the specified locale. This element is ignored if the date to be formatted does not have an associated era or period string.

To use a custom time format in Everything:

Change the following line:

time_format=

Time format can be zero or more of the following codes:

Code	Description
h	Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock.
hh	Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock.
H	Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock.
HH	Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock.
m	Minutes with no leading zero for single-digit minutes.
mm	Minutes with leading zero for single-digit minutes.
s	Seconds with no leading zero for single-digit seconds.
ss	Seconds with leading zero for single-digit seconds.
t	One character time-marker string, such as A or P.
tt	Multicharacter time-marker string, such as AM or PM.
SSS	Milliseconds with leading zeros, must be the last part of the format.